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The Pennsylvania Historical Association is honored to publish the text of Charles McCollester's keynote address, delivered at our 2019 Annual Meeting in Indiana, Pennsylvania. He situated the sacrifices made by a diverse group of union organizers -- including Fannie Sellins, "the articulate female organizer considered by many to be the successor of Mary Harris Jones," during the 1919 steel and coal strikes -- within the contemporary struggle to secure civil rights for all Americans… Read On

To mark the centennial of the Steel Strike of 1919, the Pennsylvania Historical Association presents here an audio tape of an interview with Monessen resident John Czelen, a local labor leader… Read On

From the Summer issue (86.3) of Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, the Pennsylvania Historical Association proudly presents for free access Tim Kelly and Margaret Power’s “Novelt: Worker’s Haven and Missed Opportunity.” The article can be found here, online on JSTOR and Project Muse, in addition to the physical journal… Read On

The WALS (Wheeling Academy of Law and Science) Foundation and Ohio County Public Library are teaming up to present the Reuther-Pollack Labor History Symposium III, this with the theme "Women in Labor History… Read On

We are just about 3 weeks from this deadline, so get your proposals in ASAP! **RE-POST** Recognizing the importance of introducing the next generation of scholars and teachers to the best practices of the profession, the Pennsylvania Historical Association is pleased to announce the inclusion of a poster session for student research at its 2019 Annual Meeting… Read On

Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies is calling for submissions for a special themed edition of the journal on the Pennsylvania frontier. It is scheduled for publication in Winter 2021. Submissions may cover topics from the colonial through early national periods in the Pennsylvania, the Mid-Atlantic, and Ohio Country regions… Read On

In honor of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1919 and the first female voters in 1920, Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies is issuing a special themed edition of the journal scheduled for Summer 2020… Read On

The annual PA Museums conference will be held this year April 7-9 in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. The theme is "Trust, Transparency, and Transformation." Registration is FREE for undergraduate and graduate students interested in the realm of museums. Interested historians can check this link here for more information about the conference and registration… Read On

The Pennsylvania Historical Association (PHA) invites applications for a Business Secretary with a start date of July 1, 2019… Read On

Nominations are now open for the Pennsylvania Historical Association’s 2019 William Pencak Award for the best undergraduate research paper about Pennsylvania and/or mid-Atlantic history (featured image is last year's winner, Anne Morgan). The award, named for Bill Pencak (1951-2013), a prolific scholar and much-loved Penn State University history professor and former Editor of Pennsylvania History, honors the academic year’s best written undergraduate paper in history… Read On